A method of crystallizing a solution (24) having at least one compound mixed (18) with a dissolving agent (20) is provided. The method includes performing a heating process by heating the solution (24) until a current temperature of the solution is equal to a predetermined treatment temperature, maintaining the current temperature at the predetermined treatment temperature for a predetermined treatment time period, performing a cooling process by cooling the solution (24) until the current temperature is less than the predetermined treatment temperature and a crystallization temperature of the at least one compound (18), causing formation of a plurality of crystal particles (30) of the at least one compound by cooling the solution until the current temperature is equal to a predetermined termination temperature of the at least one compound (18), and varying a particle size of each of the crystal particles (30) based on a cooling speed of the solution.

The present disclosure provides a system for extracting long chain dicarboxylic acid, the system comprising: a primary membrane filtration unit, a first crystallization unit, a first separation unit, a first dissolution tank, a secondary membrane filtration unit, a second separation unit, a second crystallization unit and a third separation unit. By the system for extracting long chain dicarboxylic acid of an embodiment of the present invention, the resulted long chain dicarboxylic acid product has a high purity, very low and even no residual alkane residue, and organic solvent-free.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of wastewater treatment, and provides a wastewater treatment method and apparatus based on hydrate-based water vapor adsorption. The apparatus includes a wastewater evaporation zone, a hydrate formation zone, a hydrate decomposition zone, and a data acquisition and control system. Rising water vapor and condensed water formed during evaporation of wastewater at normal temperature react with a hydrate former on a cooling wall surface to form a hydrate, continuous evaporation of the wastewater is promoted, the hydrate is scraped off to a collecting zone below by a scraper after being formed, and the hydrate is decomposed into fresh water, thereby realizing wastewater treatment. The present disclosure provides a method for treating complex wastewater containing a plurality of pollutants, where water vapor is consumed to form the hydrate to promote wastewater evaporation, and water obtained from the decomposition does not contain pollutants theoretically.

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for concentrating a solids stream recovered from one or more process streams derived from a beer in a biorefinery by exposing the recovered solids stream to an evaporator system to remove moisture therefrom and form a concentrated, recovered solids stream.

A method for preparing a purified styrene composition with a styrene yield of at least 80%. The method comprises providing a crude composition containing styrene, and subjecting the crude composition to at least one crystallization step. The at least one crystallization step comprises at least one static crystallization stage and at least one dynamic crystallization stage.

A Cannabis processing system comprises a grinding apparatus and a cell disruption apparatus. The grinding apparatus is configured to grind wet Cannabis cuttings to from a ground, wet Cannabis material comprising wet Cannabis particles having an average particle size within a range of from about 1 mm to about 3 mm. The cell disruption apparatus is downstream of the grinding apparatus and is configured to disrupt cell walls of plant cells of the wet Cannabis particles through one or more of flash freezing, a cellulose solvent, applied negative pressure, and vacuum distillation to facilitate removal of one or more cannabinoids within the plant cells of the wet Cannabis particles. Methods of processing Cannabis are also described.

The present application relates to processing of Cannabis material, particularly on a large scale, such as at an industrial level Cannabis is typically a controlled and regulated substance, and has traditionally been processed in low quantities. A human-based manual and/or labour-intensive processing implementation is not scalable, and is therefore infeasible at an industrial level. Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating industrial-scale processing of Cannabis material.

The present application relates to processing of cannabis material, particularly on a large scale, such as at an industrial level Cannabis is typically a controlled and regulated substance, and has traditionally been processed in low quantities. A human-based manual and/or labour-intensive processing implementation is not scalable, and is therefore infeasible at an industrial level. Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating industrial-scale processing of cannabis material.

The disclosure relates to a microfluidic system for the screening of polymorphs, morphology, and crystallization kinetics under well-mixed, continuous-flow at controlled supersaturations. The disclosure also relates to a method for screening crystalline polymorphs and morphology, and crystallization kinetics. The microfluidic system includes a microfluidic chamber having one or more inlets, a passive mixing zone, and a trap zone. The passive mixing zone promotes mixing of solvent, solute, and optionally antisolvent under stable, controlled levels of supersaturation. The trap zone similarly has stable, controlled levels of supersaturation and correspondingly low velocity to retain solute crystals formed in the trap zone for time-dependent evaluation.

The invention relates to a process for obtaining 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone from an organic mixture comprising 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone and a linear C.sub.6 to C.sub.10 carboxylic acid as organic solvent, comprising: (a) cooling the organic mixture by (a1a) mixing the organic mixture with water in a crystallization vessel to obtain a liquid mixture; (a1b) cooling the liquid mixture obtained in (a1a) to a temperature below the saturation point of 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone by (i) reducing the pressure in the crystallization vessel to a pressure at which the water starts to evaporate, (ii) condensing the evaporated water by cooling, (iii) mixing the condensed water into the liquid mixture in the crystallization vessel, to obtain a suspension comprising crystallized 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone; or by (a2) bringing the organic mixture into contact with at least one coolable surface and thereby reducing the temperature in the organic mixture with a cooling rate in the range from 5 to 50 K/h until a temperature in the range from 10 to 30° C. is reached, wherein the organic mixture and the at least one coolable surface have a temperature difference which is kept during the whole cooling process in the range from 1 to 30 K to obtain a suspension comprising crystallized 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone. (b) carrying out a solid-liquid-separation of the suspension obtained in (a1b) or in (a2) to obtain a residual moisture containing solid 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone as product and mother liquor comprising the organic solvent and water.